Safety..sure...someone wants to see and steal your potential IP by looking at the AUTOCAD server or your printer server.
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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What's next? Monitoring ink printers? you gonna stop me from printing out an image of (insert copyright charater here)? Oh yha, they would of they could. Many wernt going to make weapons, but now they might just to defend themselves. Good job. /s
Printers that detect whether you're printing the Una Bombers Manifesto again.
Sue me, I wanted a copy on colorful stationery.
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They kinda already do this with the invisible dots. Not centrally monitored, but still tracked.
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This is actually a thing, but specifically for blocking people from printing currency IIRC.
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